Performance guarantees and performance liquidated damages (PLDs) are an essential element of most engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, especially those related to solar and biogas projects; they make guaranteed levels of project performance, quality, and output enforceable. Specifically, PLDs compensate project owners for financial losses (or a reasonable approximation of them) incurred when projects
The European Union (EU) has proposed additional retaliatory tariffs on €100 billion of imports from the United States, if negotiations are unsuccessful. The list includes aircraft, vehicles, agricultural products, medical devices, chemicals, plastics, and many other products. The list also includes bourbon and spirits, which were not included in the EU’s initial retaliation. The EU
On February 7, 2025, Judge Walker, sitting in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, ruled that the Plaintiff (a subsidiary of a parent company engaged in nationwide talcum powder litigation) (“Plaintiff”) had standing to sue expert pathologists who testify for plaintiffs in personal injury litigation (“expert pathologists”) for injurious falsehood/product
On March 19, 2025, Wyoming passed a new law, SF 107, broadly circumscribing employers’ use of noncompete agreements. Generally, SF 107 broadly prohibits covenants that restrict the right of “any person” to receive compensation for performance of skilled or unskilled labor. The law will take effect on July 1, 2025, and only impacts contracts entered
Keypoint: In this post: (1) The Ninth Circuit holds essentially any website can be sued in California; (2) two courts limit pen registry claims; (3) courts split on whether privacy policies establish consent for wiretapping claims; (4) Arizona court rejects “spy pixel” theory; and (5) courts continue to expand what is “content” for wiretapping claims.
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Upon becoming law in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) extended the opportunity to generate investment tax credits (“ITCs”) to renewable natural gas (“RNG”) projects, incentivizing the development of new projects and enabling some projects already in the development pipeline to capture material new value. Specifically, the IRA provided for the generation of ITCs pursuant
Keypoint: In its second non-data broker enforcement action for violations of the CCPA, the California Privacy Protection Agency entered into a stipulated final order with a retailer for a $345,178 administrative fine and other remedial measures.
On May 6, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) announced its second non-data broker enforcement action, requiring a national
In Husch Blackwell’s April 2025 Trade Law Update you’ll learn about the following updates in international trade and supply chain law:
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In this on-demand webinar, David Stauss provides an update on state privacy and AI laws that are going into effect in the coming months or that passed during this legislative session. The webinar includes a discussion of new and upcoming consumer data privacy laws, including the draft CCPA regulations, AI laws, health data privacy laws,
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that “THC beverages” derived from hemp have exploded across America (at least in states where they are allowed by law). Time and again, due to the legal ambiguities and limitations posed by the 2018 Farm Bill, the THC beverage industry has advocated for regulation at
